Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Composer 2

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Composer 2 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 62 versus 60. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Composer 2's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 61.7 against 55. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 54% to 61.7%.

Composer 2 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 3.5 Sonnet is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.

Quick Verdict

Pick Composer 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3.5 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Composer 2

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

55

Composer 2

61.7

54%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
61.7%
62%
BrowseComp
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51%
OSWorld-Verified
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Coding

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92%
HumanEval
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49%
SWE-bench Verified
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39%
LiveCodeBench
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37%
SWE-bench Pro
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SWE Multilingual
73.7%
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React Native Evals
97.2%

Multimodal & Grounded

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77%
MMMU-Pro
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72%
OfficeQA Pro
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Reasoning

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61%
MuSR
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83%
BBH
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70%
LongBench v2
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70%
MRCRv2
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Knowledge

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90.4%
MMLU
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59.4%
GPQA
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63%
SuperGPQA
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74%
MMLU-Pro
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5%
HLE
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59%
FrontierScience
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63%
SimpleQA
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Instruction Following

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83%
IFEval
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Multilingual

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85%
MGSM
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78%
MMLU-ProX
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Mathematics

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65%
AIME 2023
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67%
AIME 2024
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66%
AIME 2025
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61%
HMMT Feb 2023
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63%
HMMT Feb 2024
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62%
HMMT Feb 2025
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64%
BRUMO 2025
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80%
MATH-500
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Composer 2?

Composer 2 is ahead overall, 62 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 54% and 61.7%.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Composer 2?

Composer 2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 55. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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